Sunday, 2 December 2012

How Can This Date "Thing" Get To Be So Real?

Well, here I am at the 2nd Day of December. That is just a name. Just a label. Is just a story about December. A story I hold in my mind. A unique story, but a story that I share with the rest of humanity - well the majority of humanity that shares the concept of a calendar that is believed to be real. .My narrative that I have learned. That is nothing new or mysterious unless I move into the question about it. What is it really?

Numbers on a piece of paper on a wall. But where else is the actual reality of the calendar.I can look outside and see frost on the grass and that tells me it is December?No… Naturally speaking that tells me it is cold outside.So I say this is the date.. What is?It is not anywhere to be found except for in my concepts.In my mind.A idea created to help us know… what? The date of course! And everybody else who knows about dates will agree with me that it is the 2nd Day of December right now.But we've invented it! A concept. An idea... and we call it reality.It doesn't exist anywhere else outside of the mind.How could this date thing get to be so real?

Inzazen, if I completely drop the idea of "date" existence continues. If I could possibly throw it right out of my mind and forget that it ever exists, there are some people who would say that whether I know it or not, the days come and go, and that means that the days have dates and they come and go. But to me they have been forgotten. We need to forget our self, so that we can remember who we really are.. How much more "Zen" can one get?

About Me

If I was to make a statement about my life, it would be.... My life is about Zen or even more specific, life IS Zen.

When people hear that statement they tend to think of me as
a person who constantly meditates, day after day in pursuit of spiritual
perfection, or spiritual realization. But nothing could be further from the
truth.

Whilst it is true that Zen can be the Way of religion, for instance Zen Buddhism, Zen can be applied to anything in life, and I have a
quite a few strong interests in life. I have been a therapist for the past 30
years. Around 25 years ago, I got interested in Zen and it transformed the way I
worked. It is a matter of focus. Through meditation, I developed a mindfulness, and through this mindfulness, I recognized that there is
only now, and if I took care of the "now" by focusing 100% on each
experience and task I worked on, the future worked out the way it was meant to work out.

I am semi-retired from my therapy work now and have found a love of writing. My latest writing venture is about Wales, my homeland.